Plant Enzymes for Human Digestion (WAS: Rejuvenation with Raw Foods and Enzymes)

[Guest guest]

Not that I want to get into this little battle you've taken on,

Laurie, but I just couldn't believe my eyes when you said:

 

> Elchanan wrote:

>

> > They are proteins doing what they are designed to do ... in this

> case, rip molecules apart.

> You can not provide any support for the claim that plant enzymes

> mediate human digestion.

 

There's this:

" One of the most important aspects of live foods, ignored by Dr. Weil,

is that food enzymes pre-digest the food in the food-enzyme part of

the stomach, and therefore have a beneficial affect to our health

without even having to pass through the gastrointestinal wall.

Research by Dr. Beazell, a noted researcher in the field, published in

the American Journal of Physiology, shows that 60% of the complex

carbohydrates, 30% of the protein, and 10% of the fats are digested in

the food-enzyme stomach by the enzymes contained in raw food. By

eating food which is not cooked, we preserve our own digestive enzyme

energy. This enzyme energy, according to the Law of Enzyme Adaptation

formulated by Dr. Howell, considered the father of food enzyme

research, can then be transferred to other needy places in the body to

bring good health. "

 

And this book here..

http://books.google.com/books?id=TiB19E6JU_sC & pg=PA9 & lpg=PA9 & dq=%22food+enzyme+s\

tomach%22 & source=web & ots=_g2u9Q6UQv & sig=qq525zINHThbBJO3sX4wJlnbO6I

 

A chapter on it here:

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020121horne/020121toc.html

Excerpt here:

Because cooked food can be digested with apparent ease by most people,

it is maintained by some authorities that cooking is relatively

harmless to food, depleting only a little from its nourishment. It is

also maintained that the destruction of food enzymes by cooking means

nothing because the enzymes are supposedly destroyed anyhow in the

acid medium of the stomach before the food reaches the intestine. This

argument is wrong, it has been shown over and over again that although

some of them are destroyed in the stomach, exogenous enzymes (i.e.

from outside the body) contained in raw food play an important part

not only in assisting the digestive processes, thus relieving the

pancreas of extra work, but in addition, are absorbed into the lymph

and blood stream to supplement enzyme production within the body.

 

As you can see, there has been research on this, but it is indeed not

widespread or well-funded because it's not a question most researchers

would even conceive. But if you want to wait for research to " prove "

something before you buy into it, then continue eating any of the

nationally recognized diet recommendations and suffer heart failure.

 

J

 

rawfood , Laurie < wrote:

>

> Elchanan wrote:

>

> > They are proteins doing what they are designed to do ... in this

> case, rip molecules apart.

> You can not provide any support for the claim that plant enzymes

> mediate human digestion.

[Guest guest]

Jen wrote:

> There's this:

 

> ... Dr. Howell, considered the father of food enzyme research, ...

I asked for SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT and you reference Howell's nonsense; so much for

your credibility. Is it that you really do not know what SCIENCE is??

http://ecologos.org/lenzyme.htm

Unsupported, hollow claims, made by non-scientists about science, are

meaningless. Don't you understand this? Is it beyond your mental abilities?

 

Produce some SCIENCE published in credible SCIENTIFIC publications. You can't.

 

Laurie

 

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Scientifically-credible info on human diet:

http://ecologos.org/ttdd.html

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